Principal Data Scientist

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The Role

Working with highly motivated Data Scientists within SEEK’s AI team, you and your team will build and support end-to-end products delivering value to hirers and job seekers that are powered by machine learning models, bring insightful analysis to empower your team and senior stakeholders to make impactful decisions, and develop your team’s talent by providing technical leadership and delivery management capability.

To be successful in this highly collaborative role, you will, as part of a larger team, focus on the inference components of products that help SEEK better understand the marketplace.

You will: build concise, statistically sound assessment of models; help design A/B tests; refine strategic thinking with data; collaborate to build end-to-end AI/ML solutions; stay up to date with emerging techniques in data science like Generative AI; support the growth of other data scientists, including validating the value, accuracy, and limitations of the assets the team builds; and be deeply involved in an exciting culture of continuous cross-functional learning. You will know how to achieve alignment, estimate effort, identify dependencies, collaborate across functions and teams, and coordinate the Data Science delivery to support the team’s products.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing a deep understanding of a niche business domain within SEEK, such as pricing, market position, or ad performance.
• Developing a deep understanding of the data available to SEEK, and how it can influence decisions made within your sphere of responsibility.
• From those understandings, formulating actionable requirements from current business problems and clarify the value-add and limitations of a data-driven approach.
• Gathering, validating, and understanding designs relevant to the problem statement.
• Working with product management and other business stakeholders to review and iterate data products to fit emerging market trends.
• Evangelising appropriate ML methods and explaining them and their associated benefits and limitations to team members from Engineering, Product, and other functions.

Qualifications

Essential skills and experience:

• 8+ years of commercial experience building and improving data-driven products.
• Demonstrated experience with machine learning algorithms and model performance tuning.
• Advanced data extraction and processing skills using Python, SQL, and Spark.
• Comfort working with and around a software development team, including Git, AWS, Databricks, and MLflow.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to operate in an ambiguous environment.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Fluent with a command line in a *nix environment.
• Postgraduate qualification in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Physics, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Engineering).

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Access to a wide range of discounts on things such as health insurance, fitness, food, travel, accommodation plus many more

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.